Hey! For those of you who've been to Branson, or who have generational connections to Garber, in northwestern Taney Co., I'm afraid I have some bad news to pass along. First of all..while the state government is planning to use funds from the Tobacco Settlement to pay for education in the next year--like many other states, MO is in trouble financially--Branson city officials are still planning to ask for permission to create a TIF District (Tax Increment Financing). They claim they cannot build the convention center on the Taneycomo Lakefront without it. In order to force the governor's hand, they have already bulldozed most of the buildings on the Lakefront, including the White River Hotel, the McQuerter house, and Sammy Lane. The buildings north of Mang Field have thus far not been destroyed--folks bought some of them at the auctions held last spring, sometimes for $30, and then did not move them, so costs are rising as the city has to get any asbestos out before they can be razed. (Aw, that hurts my feelings...) At the 29 Jul 2002 public meeting on this issue, the mayor, Lou Schaefer, claimed the White River Hotel would be saved. He also claimed last year that this was his last term as mayor. However, he is now one of 5 running for the office. I believe the majority of the others are against putting the convention center on the lakefront. Despite the public outcry, despite 4 previous feasibility reports that claimed it would be a mistake to put a convention center on the lakefront (the latest report, by a 5th company, claimed it is "do-able"), despite the glitches that keep slowing them down, the destruction of our past continues. It is my understanding that the city pool and Mang Field are both safe for the moment, as they must have a city pool, and no replacement has been built. Some folks believe a civic center for local use will be built down there, but I no longer believe the present administration has any use for doing something for the locals beyond what they have to provide. It is also my understanding that they are trying to buy land on the west side of the railroad tracks, to Sycamore Street, as they have been told the previous land purchases of 70+ acres will not be enough. I have managed to keep from looking east of the railroad tracks since they began destruction in the late fall. I don't think I could bear it. I have friends who are recording via video and film, and I'm glad for that, but I don't know how they stand it. It is beyond my belief that these places are gone, I guess, and some part of my mind protects my heart by stating, child-like, if "I don't look, it'll all be okay". I don't guess I thought "they" really would have the heartless nerve to just knock off these much-valued places without so much as a "by-your-leave." Next I suppose will be the "Historical Downtown Branson", with its faux-Victorian aura, up the hill from the river. Now. This next bit of news caught me and everyone else who cares about our past by surprise and shock and then...even more outrage. I'll send it in a different email. Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/

what township would the Powersite Dam have been in in 1910? thanks Dolores

List, I just unpacked a box of my book collection, which had been packed away since 1980s, to find the following book, I turn to you because I'm in question. Somewhere in my research travels all over the world, I have managed to obtained ownership of " History of Boone County, Missouri 1882. Inside if has a signed autograph under a picture: Ever, Your friend, Jas S. Rollins. , next page St Louis: Western Historical Company 1882, St. Louis: Press of Nixon-Jones Printing Co. Looking further, there are other photos signed as well. The book is falling apart, but for some reason I have this one, not sure how it relates to my lines. Was there something rather special about this book is my question... It tells about statehood, Civil War, townships, etc. Very interesting.. Anyone having any knowledge about this book please write me privately. Thank you Jean Brand Fresno CA

List members; please see if you can help. Nadine; The Shipmans are distant relatives of mine, related to me via the Mitchell and Roberts families, whom were my great-great-grandparents. There are many folks who can fill you in on some of this information. I do not know myself. I am forwarding your note to the Taney Co., MO List, at Rootsweb.com, and some of the other folks. Jerry Johnston ----- Original Message ----- From: Nadine Wing To: gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 10:19 PM Subject: Shipman I was wondering if there was any way to find out if Daniel Wilson Thurman was shot by your ancestor, High Shipman. Daniel was my G.Grandfather who died in 1919, at Taney Co., Mo. I was told that my G.Grandfather refused to tell where his sons were, apparently they must have been on the opposite side of Mr. Shipman, and Daniel was shot and died. I am also told that your Grandfather had pulled the trigger, and since I have become very interested in my family genealogy, I was very curious about this, and wondered if it was true. I know there are some books out, but I wondered if there was an actual account of this in any of them. Daniel would have been kin on my Dad's side of the family, and on my mother's side of the family, we have Roberts. William Jessie Roberts and Mary Ellen were my G/Grandparents. I know Mr. Shipman was married to a Roberts during his 1st marriage, and wondered if she was any kin to our family. I would be very happy to hear from you, and learn of anythi! ng you might know about this. My Roberts came from Wise Co., Va. My e-mail is: nawing1@ckt.net Thanks, Nadine Thurman Wing

Thanks so much, Marian, for identifying Henderson BENNET's wife as Dorcas America BLACKWELL. I do not see anything on either of the MITCHEL or BRADLEY names that you mention. Don Houk -----Original Message----- From: jpwatson [mailto:marianwatson@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:46 AM To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks Henderson and Dorcas Bennet are my family in Taneyville, Taney Co., Mo. Dorcas America Blackwell. I have Annabell Mitchel married James W.L. Bradley in Hickory Co., Mo. ca1870. Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Houk Don (KL.CBG)" <houk.don@jp.kline.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:56 AM Subject: RE: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > In checking the 1860 TaneyCo,MO census, I find > no BENNETT family enumerated, but 1870 census > has 2 BENNETT families as follows in Scott Twp: > #61 Lydia BENNET 35-AR > James N 11-AR > Sarah J 10-AR > Martha COWEN 54-MO > > #86 Henderson BENNET 47-TN > Dorcas A 38-TN > Hila E 18-MO > John L 16-MO > Malinda C 6-IN > William V 4-IN > Alice F 1-IN > > I don't know if either family is your connection, > Marian, but if so, can you identify spouse name > for either or both family, i.e. husb/of Lydia and > maiden name of Docas A?? > > Don Houk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jpwatson [mailto:marianwatson@hotmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:28 AM > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > Thanks for your reply but my Bennett's came from Hickory & Polk Co., and > were in the Taney Co., Mo. area in the 1860 till now. There they were > related to the Blackwell, Teague and several other early families. Marian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> > To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 12:55 PM > Subject: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > > Thelma; > > > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my > ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly born in > Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield area. > > > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her youngest > son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus Nathaniel Thilo Benton > Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton should have been Bennett; or maybe > her name was recorded wrong. > > > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian Co., MO > area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I have to look. > Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac Peacock. > > > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be fantastic! > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Jerry Johnston > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick > Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "All change represents loss of some kind; that's why some of us resist it so strongly."--Jacob M. Braude > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future."--Vladimir Horowitz, "NY Times," 17 Mar 1965 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."--Howard Aiken ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

We are kin to the Rash family. Pheba Jane Blackwell married William P. Rash and their dau., Malinda J. Rash married James W.L. Bradley, ca 1870. Could this be one of your Bradley? This was in Hickory Co., Mo. Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Houk Don (KL.CBG)" <houk.don@jp.kline.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 5:55 AM Subject: RE: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > Thanks so much, Marian, for identifying Henderson BENNET's > wife as Dorcas America BLACKWELL. I do not see anything on > either of the MITCHEL or BRADLEY names that you mention. > Don Houk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jpwatson [mailto:marianwatson@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:46 AM > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > Henderson and Dorcas Bennet are my family in Taneyville, Taney Co., Mo. > Dorcas America Blackwell. I have Annabell Mitchel married James W.L. > Bradley in Hickory Co., Mo. ca1870. Marian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Houk Don (KL.CBG)" <houk.don@jp.kline.com> > To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:56 AM > Subject: RE: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > > In checking the 1860 TaneyCo,MO census, I find > > no BENNETT family enumerated, but 1870 census > > has 2 BENNETT families as follows in Scott Twp: > > #61 Lydia BENNET 35-AR > > James N 11-AR > > Sarah J 10-AR > > Martha COWEN 54-MO > > > > #86 Henderson BENNET 47-TN > > Dorcas A 38-TN > > Hila E 18-MO > > John L 16-MO > > Malinda C 6-IN > > William V 4-IN > > Alice F 1-IN > > > > I don't know if either family is your connection, > > Marian, but if so, can you identify spouse name > > for either or both family, i.e. husb/of Lydia and > > maiden name of Docas A?? > > > > Don Houk > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: jpwatson [mailto:marianwatson@hotmail.com] > > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:28 AM > > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > > > > Thanks for your reply but my Bennett's came from Hickory & Polk Co., and > > were in the Taney Co., Mo. area in the 1860 till now. There they were > > related to the Blackwell, Teague and several other early families. Marian > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> > > To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 12:55 PM > > Subject: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > > > > > Thelma; > > > > > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my > > ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly born > in > > Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield area. > > > > > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her youngest > > son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus Nathaniel Thilo Benton > > Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton should have been Bennett; or > maybe > > her name was recorded wrong. > > > > > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian Co., MO > > area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I have to look. > > Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac Peacock. > > > > > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be fantastic! > > > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > > > Jerry Johnston > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick > > Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > "All change represents loss of some kind; that's why some of us resist it > so strongly."--Jacob M. Braude > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > "My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the > present my future."--Vladimir Horowitz, "NY Times," 17 Mar 1965 > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."--Howard Aiken > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "A society that wants to build the future must know its past, its real past, as it was."--Anatoly Rybakov, NY Times, 31 Oct 1986 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

In checking the 1860 TaneyCo,MO census, I find no BENNETT family enumerated, but 1870 census has 2 BENNETT families as follows in Scott Twp: #61 Lydia BENNET 35-AR James N 11-AR Sarah J 10-AR Martha COWEN 54-MO #86 Henderson BENNET 47-TN Dorcas A 38-TN Hila E 18-MO John L 16-MO Malinda C 6-IN William V 4-IN Alice F 1-IN I don't know if either family is your connection, Marian, but if so, can you identify spouse name for either or both family, i.e. husb/of Lydia and maiden name of Docas A?? Don Houk -----Original Message----- From: jpwatson [mailto:marianwatson@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:28 AM To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks Thanks for your reply but my Bennett's came from Hickory & Polk Co., and were in the Taney Co., Mo. area in the 1860 till now. There they were related to the Blackwell, Teague and several other early families. Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > Thelma; > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly born in Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield area. > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her youngest son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus Nathaniel Thilo Benton Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton should have been Bennett; or maybe her name was recorded wrong. > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian Co., MO area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I have to look. Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac Peacock. > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be fantastic! > > Thanks so much! > > Jerry Johnston > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== "All change represents loss of some kind; that's why some of us resist it so strongly."--Jacob M. Braude ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Henderson and Dorcas Bennet are my family in Taneyville, Taney Co., Mo. Dorcas America Blackwell. I have Annabell Mitchel married James W.L. Bradley in Hickory Co., Mo. ca1870. Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Houk Don (KL.CBG)" <houk.don@jp.kline.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:56 AM Subject: RE: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > In checking the 1860 TaneyCo,MO census, I find > no BENNETT family enumerated, but 1870 census > has 2 BENNETT families as follows in Scott Twp: > #61 Lydia BENNET 35-AR > James N 11-AR > Sarah J 10-AR > Martha COWEN 54-MO > > #86 Henderson BENNET 47-TN > Dorcas A 38-TN > Hila E 18-MO > John L 16-MO > Malinda C 6-IN > William V 4-IN > Alice F 1-IN > > I don't know if either family is your connection, > Marian, but if so, can you identify spouse name > for either or both family, i.e. husb/of Lydia and > maiden name of Docas A?? > > Don Houk > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jpwatson [mailto:marianwatson@hotmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:28 AM > To: MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > Thanks for your reply but my Bennett's came from Hickory & Polk Co., and > were in the Taney Co., Mo. area in the 1860 till now. There they were > related to the Blackwell, Teague and several other early families. Marian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> > To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 12:55 PM > Subject: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > > Thelma; > > > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my > ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly born in > Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield area. > > > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her youngest > son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus Nathaniel Thilo Benton > Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton should have been Bennett; or maybe > her name was recorded wrong. > > > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian Co., MO > area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I have to look. > Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac Peacock. > > > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be fantastic! > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Jerry Johnston > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick > Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "All change represents loss of some kind; that's why some of us resist it so strongly."--Jacob M. Braude > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future."--Vladimir Horowitz, "NY Times," 17 Mar 1965 > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I write the Ozarks Genealogy column on-line for the News-Leader a Springfield, MO newspaper http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/genealogy/index.html Please fill in your query. I would be glad to run a query for you. I suggest you put your full name and mailing address as well as e-mail with your query. A lot of folks do not use computers and they go to the Library to read the print out and answer the ones they can. just a suggestion, let me know if you want to include you mailing address. Thanks Gloria Bogart Carter, Genealogist, 733 South Farm Road 89, Springfield, MO 65802, gbcarter@juno.com 417-869-7060; My BOOK LIST available by e-mail; My Ozarks Genealogy Query Column appears each Sunday on line http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/genealogy/index.html ; Visit Wright Co MO web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~mowright/wright.htm On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:55:48 -0700 "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> writes: > Thelma; > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my > ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly > born in Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield > area. > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her > youngest son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus > Nathaniel Thilo Benton Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton > should have been Bennett; or maybe her name was recorded wrong. > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian > Co., MO area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I > have to look. Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac > Peacock. > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be > fantastic! > > Thanks so much! > > Jerry Johnston > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come > from."--Dick Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

This is a Warning: If you have ever posted a Family Tree on the Internet that has included your Mother's Maiden Name and Someone, Somehow, Ever Gets a Hold of your Social Security Number, You are a Candidate for Identity Theft. Most Lending and/or Credit Card Institutions use both SSN and Mother's Maiden Name as Passwords. This was mentioned at the Board Meeting this month at the Solano County (California) Genealogical Society that I attended as a Board Member on 7 January 2003. It slipped my mind until 2am this morning, 11 January, waking me when it appeared in my Dream. Walt Dean

If they were in Polk and Hickory Co. they may have tied to the Mitchell folks there. We do not know who our Wm. C. Mitchell was the son of, but it may have been Morris Mitchell of Polk Co., MO. There still may be a connection, but no one seems to know. Jerry J. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jpwatson" <marianwatson@hotmail.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > Thanks for your reply but my Bennett's came from Hickory & Polk Co., and > were in the Taney Co., Mo. area in the 1860 till now. There they were > related to the Blackwell, Teague and several other early families. Marian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> > To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 12:55 PM > Subject: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > > > > Thelma; > > > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my > ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly born in > Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield area. > > > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her youngest > son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus Nathaniel Thilo Benton > Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton should have been Bennett; or maybe > her name was recorded wrong. > > > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian Co., MO > area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I have to look. > Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac Peacock. > > > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be fantastic! > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Jerry Johnston > > > > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick > Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "All change represents loss of some kind; that's why some of us resist it so strongly."--Jacob M. Braude > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Thanks for your reply but my Bennett's came from Hickory & Polk Co., and were in the Taney Co., Mo. area in the 1860 till now. There they were related to the Blackwell, Teague and several other early families. Marian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Johnston" <gerald.h.johnston@worldnet.att.net> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: [MOTANEY] Bennett Folks > Thelma; > > Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly born in Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield area. > > I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her youngest son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus Nathaniel Thilo Benton Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton should have been Bennett; or maybe her name was recorded wrong. > > Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian Co., MO area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I have to look. Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac Peacock. > > Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be fantastic! > > Thanks so much! > > Jerry Johnston > > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Life here is not just where we're going, but where we come from."--Dick Solomon, "3rd Rock from the Sun" > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Sharon - Taney City is now Taneyville. My grandfather had a store there. Chub Bennet was in business with him in Kissee Mills. I know where thre two story house is located & actually it is closer to Dickens. It is on highway 76. Thelma gtland@poncacity.net Sharon wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sharon > To: MO-AR-WRV-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:14 PM > Subject: Bald Knobber Stories, Verifcation of Manes & Brown Shootings > > Finally, I have found verification of my granduncle John Wesley Manes, Jr's death by outlaw James Brown as was told to me by relatives!! > I found the reference to it in the book 'Bald Knobbers, Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier" by Mary Hartman & Elmo Ingenthron, pgs 196 & 198. > .........."an outlaw skulked into MO a step ahead of AR law officers. James Brown, who lived near Forsyth, was sought for robbing and burning a store at Lead Hill, AR. He crossed the stae line near Protem, where he broke into several houses & stole food & valuables. Sheriff McHaffie led a small search party to hunt for Brown at his grandfather's house near Taney City. On the morning of 20th Aug 1886, Brown heard them ride up & hid in a hollow a quarter mile north. The possee spread out to search the property. When 20 year old James (sic) Manusstarted down into the hollow, Brown shot him in the stomach. Manus fell to the ground, and Brown climbed the hill toward him. > > Reaching the wounded Manus, Brown said, "Well, I'v dot you, and I'll get the rest of them with your rifle." He grabbed for the deputy's Winchester. Although badly wounded, Manus held onto his gun & fired 5 shots. One bullet struck Brown in the left arm, and 2 more grazed his side. But the outlaw, his arm almost blown off, ran away!! > > Sheriff McHaffie summoned Dr. E. V. Baldwin to treat his dying officer. The angry sheriff beefed up his posse. All that day & thru the night, bet 50 & 10 armed men stalked the criminal. At around eiht the next morning, the hunters discovered that Brown had raided a farmer's springhouse for butter & other food. Abt a mile away, James Bunch and another searcher tracked Brown's bloody trailto a pile of brush at a fence corner. > > Afraid of Brown's gun, the pursuers yelled him name & ordered him to surrender. He rose & staggered away. Bunch fired, hitting Brown in the back, and the outlaw died in a patch of dogwood sprouts."........ > > "An hour later, James Manus also died of his wounds. The sheriff dismissed hid posse.....and "rode off toward Swan Creek. > > FOLLOW UP - Janice Soutee Looney told me that John had been mis-identified as James. From another cousin I was told that John Manes was taken to Chub Bennett's 2-story house which was nearbyand that he died there. Is that place still standing? > > Which family of Browns lived near Taney City? Where James Brown's grandparents lived? Does anyone know? I think I may be related to him also. > > Sharon in AZ texsam@cox.net > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."--Victor Hugo > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Thelma; Saw your note re Chub Bennett. I am trying to find relations of my ggg-grandmother, Mary Isabella Bennett Mitchell. She was supposedly born in Randolph Co., MO; but it may have been in the Springfield area. I have not found anyone with knowledge of her family yet. Her youngest son was my great-great-grandfather, Thomas Josephus Nathaniel Thilo Benton Mitchell. I have wondered if the Benton should have been Bennett; or maybe her name was recorded wrong. Anyway, Isabella was a famous midwife in the Garrison, Christian Co., MO area. She married Wm. C. Mitchell in about 1837 , or so, I have to look. Then, after his death in 1860, she married Isaac Peacock. Any help from you, or anyone you can connect me with would be fantastic! Thanks so much! Jerry Johnston

----- Original Message ----- From: Sharon To: MO-AR-WRV-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Bald Knobber Stories, Verifcation of Manes & Brown Shootings Finally, I have found verification of my granduncle John Wesley Manes, Jr's death by outlaw James Brown as was told to me by relatives!! I found the reference to it in the book 'Bald Knobbers, Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier" by Mary Hartman & Elmo Ingenthron, pgs 196 & 198. .........."an outlaw skulked into MO a step ahead of AR law officers. James Brown, who lived near Forsyth, was sought for robbing and burning a store at Lead Hill, AR. He crossed the stae line near Protem, where he broke into several houses & stole food & valuables. Sheriff McHaffie led a small search party to hunt for Brown at his grandfather's house near Taney City. On the morning of 20th Aug 1886, Brown heard them ride up & hid in a hollow a quarter mile north. The possee spread out to search the property. When 20 year old James (sic) Manusstarted down into the hollow, Brown shot him in the stomach. Manus fell to the ground, and Brown climbed the hill toward him. Reaching the wounded Manus, Brown said, "Well, I'v dot you, and I'll get the rest of them with your rifle." He grabbed for the deputy's Winchester. Although badly wounded, Manus held onto his gun & fired 5 shots. One bullet struck Brown in the left arm, and 2 more grazed his side. But the outlaw, his arm almost blown off, ran away!! Sheriff McHaffie summoned Dr. E. V. Baldwin to treat his dying officer. The angry sheriff beefed up his posse. All that day & thru the night, bet 50 & 10 armed men stalked the criminal. At around eiht the next morning, the hunters discovered that Brown had raided a farmer's springhouse for butter & other food. Abt a mile away, James Bunch and another searcher tracked Brown's bloody trailto a pile of brush at a fence corner. Afraid of Brown's gun, the pursuers yelled him name & ordered him to surrender. He rose & staggered away. Bunch fired, hitting Brown in the back, and the outlaw died in a patch of dogwood sprouts."........ "An hour later, James Manus also died of his wounds. The sheriff dismissed hid posse.....and "rode off toward Swan Creek. FOLLOW UP - Janice Soutee Looney told me that John had been mis-identified as James. From another cousin I was told that John Manes was taken to Chub Bennett's 2-story house which was nearbyand that he died there. Is that place still standing? Which family of Browns lived near Taney City? Where James Brown's grandparents lived? Does anyone know? I think I may be related to him also. Sharon in AZ texsam@cox.net

Hey, howdy! I know, I've been gone for too long, and I'm not doing anything worth doing genealogy-wise, but thought I'd better write y'all to let you know I'm still kickin'...the weather is the weirdest thing this year--we got 14" of snow 23/24 Dec, it melted by th 29th due to day temps in the fifties, then another snow threat on 1 Jan (which didn't materialize). Today, we set a record high for the day, from what I understand...the temp was 69 at one point this afternoon. Seems every 2 weeks, it's spring-like, then the weeks in between, Mother Nature wants to remind us it IS January in the Ozarks. Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Ours was good, got to see everyone (except my sister) over the break, and even had a nice cast party at the Old Taney county Jail on New Year's Eve. Now...I'm doing genealogy again, but at this time I'm concentrating on the Bald Knobbers and the Anti-Bald Knobbers. I'm seeking pictures of all the men, stories on the families, that sort of thing...and I'm not strictly concentrating on the Taney county men. Brian Shay found a copy of Harvey Castleman's booklet on the BK and ABK, and I transcribed it over the past few days. If you'd like, I can send it to the lists, but it's 20 pages in text, so I'd have to break it down over a lot of emails. Mr. Castleman published this booklet in 1944, and much of his work appears in the Hartman/Ingenthron book, "Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks' Frontier". He appears to be anti-Bald Knobber in the beginning, but pro-BK towards the end. If you have any information on these folks, please post TO THE LISTS so we can all learn more about these people who played a prominent part in Ozarks' history. Oh, yeah, and I'm looking for someone to take over the WRV website, if anyone would care to. After 3 years of building and re-building websites, I've figured out--I really don't like doing it. (Mom has always said I'm a late bloomer; apparently I'm slow to figure stuff out, too!) Contact me if this is something you'd like to attempt--right now, it's just maintaining, and updating cemetery lists and events of the Society. Everyone have a great week...and I'll try to pay more attention to my email (has anyone else gotten hundreds of thousands of junk emails lately?); my inbox is still horrendously full, but I'm slowly getting it broken down...I think. Vonda ListMom for MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/

Could someone please help me with Martha Bowman's (daughter of Jeptha and Jane Ann Costlow) first husbands name? I know that she married Hemphill but just can't find her first husband. Bonnie in CA.

Your Welcome and Happy New Year ----- Original Message ----- From: <BSchwab346@aol.com> To: <MOTANEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: Re: [MOTANEY] southern maps > This an easy to read site, and really good, thanks for bringing to our > attention. > Bonnie in CA. > > > ==== MOTANEY Mailing List ==== > "Determine the things that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."--Abraham Lincoln > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Happy Holidays, everyone. May your new year be filled with peace and joy......and not one brick wall in sight. I've left a greeting for you at: http://www.geocities.com/twincousin2334/Christmas2002 Nancy Brister, researching: McCormick, Carmichael, Dawkins, Garrett, Warren, Stringer, Cain, Matthews, Jackson

This an easy to read site, and really good, thanks for bringing to our attention. Bonnie in CA.